Free Audio CD of the Great Poets of the 20th Century

Great poets of the 20th Century

Seven books and a CD.
Free in the Guardian and The Observer from Tuesday March 11.

Each booklet is dedicated to a different giant of the medium, with forewords by contemporary commentators ranging from Jeanette Winterson to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Also featured are reproductions of original manuscripts showing the working notes on some of the greatest poems of the time. Plus archive reviews to give you a sense of the extraordinary impact they had when first published.
Listen to the poets reading their work, the way it was intended to be heard with our free audio CD on Saturday March 15.



Tuesday March 11

T.S. Eliot's poems:
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
Aunt Helen
La Figlia Che Piange
A Game of Chess
Ash Wednesday IV
Journey of the Magi
Lines to Ralph Hodgson Esqre.
Lines for Cuscuscaraway and Mirza Murad Ali Beg
East Coker I

Wednesday March 12

WH Auden's poems:
The Letter
Lullaby
As I Walked Out One Evening
Musée des Beaux Arts
Law Like Love
Another Time
Secrets
Whitsunday in Kirchstetten


Thursday March 13

Sylvia Plath's poems:
You're
The Swarm
The Applicant
Daddy
Ariel
Lady Lazarus
Edge

Friday March 14

Philip Larkin's poems:
XXX (from The North Ship)
Mr Bleaney
The Whitsun Weddings
Days
Dockery and Son
An Arundel Tomb
High Windows
This Be The Verse
Vers de Société
Aubade

Sunday March 16

Ted Hughes' poems:
The Hawk in the Rain
The Thought-Fox
The Horses
A Modest Proposal
Hawk Roosting
Thrushes
Pike
Full Moon and Little Frieda
The Shot
The Rabbit Catcher

Monday March 17

Seamus Heaney's poems:
Digging
Death of a Naturalist
Anahorish
The Tollund Man
The Toome Road
The Railway Children
Terminus
Clearance
The Pitchfork
Markings

Tuesday March 18

Siegfried Sassoon's poems:
Prelude: The Troops
Counter-Attack
The Rear-Guard
Dreamers
The Effect
The General
To Any Dead Officer
The Dug-Out
In the Pink
'They'
Everyone Sang
The Hero
Remorse
Falling Asleep

Great poets of the 20th Century